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What do you think would happen if an average loyal space marine was somehow transported to present day time square or something similar?

And Alternatively what do you think would happen if YOU were somehow transported to an Ultramarines fortress monastery just before the start of the 13th black crusade ? I say Ultramarines because you are least likely to be shot as some sort of heretic and maybe they will listen too what you say. I personally would say the Emprah has sent me from the year 2013 to bring a warning to them about what will happen, and would probably tell them loads of other fluff that happens at the end of the 41st millenium and the beginning of the 42nd
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Average space marine dropped into today. He dies. Fast.

Ultramarines shoot you. Fast. As a heretic.

P.S. There are other chapters in the 40K universe.

 Traejun wrote:
Average space marine dropped into today. He dies. Fast.

Ultramarines shoot you. Fast. As a heretic.

P.S. There are other chapters in the 40K universe.

He wont die as fast as GW would send him a cease and desist letter for wearing the armor they designed and own the copyright too.

If the space marine decided he was in some sort of Chaos mind trick and decided to kill everyone then i doubt the police would be able to stop him as i would assume normal bullets would be useless against power armor, Hell a lasgun is useless against power armor and las beams are better than bullets.

He would be unable to communicate with anyone, as English has not survived into M41 (neither has any other Terran language). He'd be nigh-unkillable to any standard force short of an advanced military... and all of GW's numbers aside, the depiction of PA gives it closer to a 99.99% chance of stopping injury to the Marine against common small-arms, which is pretty much everything that any modern military on the planet has.

However, I don't he will go into an immediate killing frenzy, as Im pretty sure he'd recognize that he's amongst a civilian population and not under immediate threat.

Unless he gets hit by a SABOT. Round from an Abrams tank

Might do something. Might not. We've no idea, as we have nothing approaching ceramite on Earth.

Honestly Cremite sounds a lot like composite Armor , and the impact would more then likely rupture his organs or shatter his reinforced bones

I'd love to go to the Ultramarines just before the 13th Black Crusade.

That way I'd be on the opposite side of the galaxy from the fighting and chillin' with my home boy, Marneus.

 Kasrkin229 wrote:
Honestly Cremite sounds a lot like composite Armor , and the impact would more then likely rupture his organs or shatter his reinforced bones

"Sounds a lot like" is not the same thing as "is equivalent to". Like I said, it's one of those things we simply can't know, as it doesn't actually exist. The sabot round might blow him to pieces. It might just irritate him, and if he has a Power Fist, then he's going to pull a tank apart with his hands, and that will cause many, many people in the armed forces to gak themselves silly. Or it may blow him into paste, and then the armed forces will be like "Well, that was interesting. Job's done."

 Kasrkin229 wrote:
Unless he gets hit by a SABOT. Round from an Abrams tank

They'd far more likely get an Apache loaded with Hellfire missiles on site sooner.

In any event, modern anti-armor weaponry would waste our unfortunate, time-traveling Space Marine

 Psienesis wrote:

 Kasrkin229 wrote:
Honestly Cremite sounds a lot like composite Armor , and the impact would more then likely rupture his organs or shatter his reinforced bones

"Sounds a lot like" is not the same thing as "is equivalent to". Like I said, it's one of those things we simply can't know, as it doesn't actually exist. The sabot round might blow him to pieces. It might just irritate him, and if he has a Power Fist, then he's going to pull a tank apart with his hands, and that will cause many, many people in the armed forces to gak themselves silly. Or it may blow him into paste, and then the armed forces will be like "Well, that was interesting. Job's done."

I think that the armor is closest to reinforced concrete today, you know the type used in bomb shelters. and also i dont think he will immediately go nuts just be very very very confused. (correct me if im wrong but i thought low gothic was based on modern english and high gothic latin). and if i was sent to the 41st i would try and help ya know. just i would think it would be more accepted by another chapter (i dont have the highest opinion of ultramarines, they are to rigid.) but it would be awesome none the less.

Low Gothic is a mix of English, all of the European languages, and various Pacific Islander dialects... developed over 38,000 years between now and then. Notice how hard Old English is to decipher from modern English? Yeah, now add another 37,000 years of development.

High Gothic descends from the language used to write tech manuals during the Dark Age of Technology.... so it might be Chinese, for all we know.

It only appears to us as English and Latin because that is, as GW has said, the closest approximation to a recognizable language they can present it to us with.

 Psienesis wrote:
Low Gothic is a mix of English, all of the European languages, and various Pacific Islander dialects... developed over 38,000 years between now and then. Notice how hard Old English is to decipher from modern English? Yeah, now add another 37,000 years of development.

High Gothic descends from the language used to write tech manuals during the Dark Age of Technology.... so it might be Chinese, for all we know.

It only appears to us as English and Latin because that is, as GW has said, the closest approximation to a recognizable language they can present it to us with.

High Gothic simply appears to be a combination of VERY formal English and Latin

Hey, my cultists use crappy pistols and they've killed marines. It just takes a LOT of luck

People would think hes some weird dude wearing all that armor. posisbly try to direct him to the nearest GW or convention center and when he sees all the tiny versions of his battle brothers, allies and foes he would get a mind screw on a galactic scale.

as for being teleported to UM world.... well... you would probly be killed.

The Space Marine would get instagrammed a few hundred times in the first few seconds, then get a few hundred Twitter accounts within the first few minutes. Then when SWAT arrive and point guns at him, all hell breaks loose. Then a drone strike comes in and takes him down.

You'd either be shot on sight, or worse, taken prisoner and handed over to the Inquisition.

I'm farely certain that a headshot from an .50 caliber anti-material sniper rifle, such as a Barret, armed with armor piercing rounds would still kill him with one shot. If that round can punch clean through a modern day vehicles engine block, a Space Marines helmet armor can't be stronger than that.

Depending on where he lands I would guess the imperial cult would be up and thriving in couple days, after the language barriers is broken (I'm sure that modern cryptographers and linguistic experts could help him get his words across) and tech would thrive probably. Ever notice how much the average high school education could improve the world if we sent even one person back say a thousand years, well yeah (Bonus points for a tech marine). Humanity would be on the fast track to success, I mean who isn't going to pitch in when a giant in nigh destructible armor descends from the sky speaking a strange language preaching with imperial fervor about the emperor and humanities destiny.

If I was sent to a ultramarine fortress monastery I demand to speak to the highest ranking marine in sight and tell him I was sent under orders of the emperor to commander the largest amount of space marines I could muster and rally at Terra. When they ask why I will say I was sent through a one way time machine into the past and than warn them about the greatest disaster to befall humanity "You see we have to get there as fast as possible before it happens, holy Terra is going to fall under siege by Horus who has fallen to heresy and hes going to try to kill the emperor unless we get there in time" using my ace acting skills to feign total shock that I was sent to the future not the past. Eventually when an inquisitor comes to question me I will tell'em "I'm no heretic everytime I pray to the emperor I roll a six"

 RoadToRuin wrote:


If I was sent to a ultramarine fortress monastery I demand to speak to the highest ranking marine in sight and tell him I was sent under orders of the emperor to commander the largest amount of space marines I could muster and rally at Terra. When they ask why I will say I was sent through a one way time machine into the past and than warn them about the greatest disaster to befall humanity "You see we have to get there as fast as possible before it happens, holy Terra is going to fall under siege by Horus who has fallen to heresy and hes going to try to kill the emperor unless we get there in time" using my ace acting skills to feign total shock that I was sent to the future not the past. Eventually when an inquisitor comes to question me I will tell'em "I'm no heretic everytime I pray to the emperor I roll a six"

Then they would shoot you because they can't understand what the hell your talking about.

If he knew this was the past he wouldn't do anything because he may kill an ancestor of the Emperor and cause the Emperor to be born/created full potato.

If his action had no affect he would cleanse the area with his holy bolter and chainsword. Cops would arrive and be useless, next swat see above, next national gaurd see above, when the air strikes come in thats when he might go down.

fluff wise a few lasgun shots at a m1 abrams would turn it to a slag heap

A smart marine could eventually take over the world.... functional immortality is a pretty huge advantage to have, as well as a knowledge of tactics, even in a political arena. More likely they'd set themselves up as a warlord in some third world country, and wait for the emperor to appear. Which I assume he would, if only to him.

Ofcourse, a fanatical marine would start shooting, kill a couple of hundred people, eventually get air striked to death, and then force the emperor from hiding to contain the bloody mess of giving Power Armor technology to a world that's not ready for it.

Now, a Librarian would most definitely take over the world,economically if not outright politically, immortal telepaths make the best potilicians. He'd then either prepare it for the Emperor's glorious arrival, or possibly fall to chaos if it's strong enough already.

I'd just love to see the faces of government/military people the first time our time-traveling space marine destroys a tank with a power fist.

It'd be like "da fuq! did he just punch a tank to death?"

Well, lets hope that that marine is not Dark Apostle or a strong psyker then we are just instantly screwed.

In w40k universe nothing will happen to you if you will have at least a little bit of ''common'' sense. Do not start talking nonsense about their holy Terra and you will soon be redirected to some Imperial institution responsible for reintegration of civilians who fell victim to time travel.


As for a space marine, he might just go to hibernation and wait for his Emperor then he will figure out that the heck has happened.
As for our ability to kill him: yes in theory we could. But you all forget that he will not stand in a open field waiting to get shot at. He will move lighting fast. He might be invisible to our sensors since space marine could radiate no heat if he would want to. He will use cover from our unfocused weaponary (I have a feeling that everything expect anti-armor and high-powered sniper rifles would be useless against him). And he will relocate himself quickly from place to place. His bolter rounds would be prized by him more than human cities. So, I guess we will not even earn a honor to be shoot at by a Adeptus Astrates. In the end, lets all hope that he forgets that weird GW's brain-eating fluff...

Well, if you think about it . . .

An Empire State Trooper can take down a Bloodletter as easily as a Space Marine.

If gak goes down, we'd be fine.

What is an Empire State Trooper?

 Psienesis wrote:


However, I don't he will go into an immediate killing frenzy, as Im pretty sure he'd recognize that he's amongst a civilian population and not under immediate threat.

but those civilians are heretics who do not worship the immortal god emperor. When he can't find any signs of the imperial cult he would go into cleanse mode until some nation commits a huge amount of manpower

 Psienesis wrote:
What is an Empire State Trooper?

WHFB unit. think guardsmen with a pike

 RoadToRuin wrote:
Depending on where he lands I would guess the imperial cult would be up and thriving in couple days, after the language barriers is broken (I'm sure that modern cryptographers and linguistic experts could help him get his words across) and tech would thrive probably. Ever notice how much the average high school education could improve the world if we sent even one person back say a thousand years, well yeah (Bonus points for a tech marine). Humanity would be on the fast track to success, I mean who isn't going to pitch in when a giant in nigh destructible armor descends from the sky speaking a strange language preaching with imperial fervor about the emperor and humanities destiny.

If I was sent to a ultramarine fortress monastery I demand to speak to the highest ranking marine in sight and tell him I was sent under orders of the emperor to commander the largest amount of space marines I could muster and rally at Terra. When they ask why I will say I was sent through a one way time machine into the past and than warn them about the greatest disaster to befall humanity "You see we have to get there as fast as possible before it happens, holy Terra is going to fall under siege by Horus who has fallen to heresy and hes going to try to kill the emperor unless we get there in time" using my ace acting skills to feign total shock that I was sent to the future not the past. Eventually when an inquisitor comes to question me I will tell'em "I'm no heretic everytime I pray to the emperor I roll a six"

Mentioning you are from a different time period is a sure fire way to get the Ordos Chronos on your ass

 Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:


However, I don't he will go into an immediate killing frenzy, as Im pretty sure he'd recognize that he's amongst a civilian population and not under immediate threat.

but those civilians are heretics who do not worship the immortal god emperor. When he can't find any signs of the imperial cult he would go into cleanse mode until some nation commits a huge amount of manpower

No he wouldn't the Imperium is constantly finding worlds with isolated human populations that have never heard of the Emperor and haven't seen a spaceship in millenia. He would assume a warpstorm had taken him to one of these planets and lacking the authority to take any action would probably be peaceful and respectful. We are humans after all. He would only get violent if we attempted to disrespect him in some way. I doubt he would be willing to give himself and his weapons up which may make some of our governments a bit uneasy...